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MY FRIEND THE GULLAH: A Collection of Personal Experiences.
Edition: 5th printing.
Columbia, South Carolina, The R. L. Bryan Company, (1976.) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Dr. Julian K. Quattlebaum on the Gullah dialect, which was found along the southern coast on the remote Sea Islands and coastal lands, from South Carolina to the northern part of Florida. The author, J. Gary Black collected stories on the South Carolina islands of Hilton Head, Daufuskie, and St. Helena between the 1920's and 1970 as a tax collector for Beaufort County, South Carolina. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Illustrated by Nancy Ricker Webb. xii, 50 pp.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, short closed tear to the dj.)
Book ID: 51134More details Price: $20.00 -
BLACK LIVES, WHITE LIVES: Three Decades of Race Relations in America.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1990.). Candid interviews with sixteen black Americans and twelve white Americans starting in 1968, with most interviewed again in 1979 and 1986. These interviews capture the racial tensions of the late 1960's and the changing perspectives of the 70's and 80's - some are encouraging; others are often angry or disillusioned accounts of failed promises, misunderstandings, and lost opportunities. This trade paperback edition includes two new essays by the author - 'The Author's Story' and 'Where Are the People Now.' Also includes an appendix with the methodology used, notes, and a bibliographic essay. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-520069501.
Condition: Very good in stiff black wrappers.
Book ID: 38953More details Price: $10.00 -
BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 67056More details Price: $20.00 -
UP AT THE COLLEGE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009) dj. Hardcover - Determined to move on after her husband of fifteen years decides to leave her because their marriage became "boring", Yvonne Copeland returns to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina. 291 pp plus a reading group guide. ISBN: 978-0446577755.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66839More details Price: $12.50 -
WHITE CHOCOLATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a bi-racial undercover television journalist, who had infiltrated a white-supremacy group and has now been marked for death. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-312863063.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (short closed tear at fold of dj flap)
Book ID: 40724More details Price: $12.50 -
BORN WITH THE BLUES: Perry Bradford's Own Story. The True Story of the Pioneering Blues Singers and Musicians in the Early Days of Jazz.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good red cloth in a good only dust jacket (some offsetting from the red cloth to the interior of the dj, several chips and other edgewear to the dj) Hard to find in any edition, but scarce in hardcover in a dustjacket.
Book ID: 88879More details Price: $100.00 -
IT'S A SISTAH THING: A Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Fibroids for African American Women.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (2002.). First edition - Foreword by by Ifeanyi C. O. Obiakor, M.D. Written by a woman who herself had surgery for her fibroids, this is packed full of good advice - not just for black women with fibroids, but for all women - on exercise, diet, taking control of your health and health care and more. Monique Brown's name and phone number handwritten on first page. Resources, notes. 283 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in printed orange wrappers (crease to back cover.)
Book ID: 39906More details Price: $10.00 -
WE NEED NEW NAMES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). SIGNED first edition - First novel by this young author who was born in Zimbabwe, a story of the resillience of children and of displacement and arrival in a new country - winner of the Los Angeles Times award for First Fiction and short-listed for the Man-Booker. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp plus a 2 pp conversation with author Justin Torres.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63926More details Price: $50.00 -
FIREFIGHT AT YECHON: Courage and Racism in the Korean War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Brassey's / Macmillan, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A professional soldier's heartfelt story: Lt. Col. Bussey's personal account of racism and prejudice in the Korean War. He is a former Tuskegee airman, World War II combat fighter pilot and aims in this book to set the record straight about the performance of African American troops at Yechon. Illustrated with 16 black-and-white photographs. 264 pp. Map of Korean Peninsula and of the Pusan Perimeter on the front endpapers. ISBN: 0-080374484.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56769More details Price: $18.00 -
DAWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner Books, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book in XENOGENESIS series by this award winning author, who was also a recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award for her work - the first science fiction writer to be so honored. Even now, years after her untimely death her reputation continues to grow. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-446-513636.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86063More details Price: $125.00 -
"The Negro in American Films" in FILM QUARTERLY: Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1965.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. First edition - Features a long article on "The Negro in American Films: Some Recent Works" by Albert Johnson; a retrospective on film-maker Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951) by Helen Van Dongen, who worked with Flaherty on "The Land"; a look at Mexican cinema by Manuel Michel and an interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Reviews and ads. Square format. 62 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in stapled photographic wrappers (some dampstaining to the lower corners, only affecting the margins)
Book ID: 84498More details Price: $25.00 -
HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Art of Black America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem / Harry N. Abrams, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully produced book, large format with 140 illustrations including 55 plates in full color. Included are the words of painters Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, and William H. Johnson, sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller and photographer James Van Der Zee and much more. Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance from 1919 to 1929, chronologies of the artists and an index. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-8109-10993.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68374More details Price: $75.00 -
BLACK IMAGES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Teachers College Press, (1970). First edition - A book by this Trinidadian professor which focuses on Black poetry in the Antilles in the 1920s and 1930s, especially that of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Santo Domingo Notes, xiv, 106 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (address label on first page).
Book ID: 84899More details Price: $20.00 -
TO WINDWARD OF THE LAND: The Occult World of Alexander Charles.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83710More details Price: $35.00 -
A CARIBBEAN COUNTING BOOK.
Edition: First American edition.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 76400More details Price: $12.50 -
BILLIE'S BLUES: Billie Holiday's Story, 1933-1959.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Stein & Day, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of Billie Holiday by a friend and musician, one that focuses on the contradictions of her artistry as an accomplished jazz singer and her struggles as a drug addict, as a woman who earned the adulation of fans and suffered the humiliations of Jim Crow and incarceration. Foreword by Buck Clayton. Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-812818210.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some wear to the dj at the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 76831More details Price: $28.50 -
PASSENGER ON THE PEARL: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 62457More details Price: $16.50 -
AMERICAN RACISM: Exploration of the Nature of Prejudice.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Prentice-Hall, (1970). First edition - Looks at racism in practice from 1769-1942 as it affected Native Americans (the Mission system), Chinese, Japanese, Mexican Americans and African Americans,with a chapter on post-World War II racism. Includes a list of documents, suggestions for further reading, index. xii, 155 pp. ISBN: 0-130289930.
Condition: Good condition (some curling to edges of covers, contents clean)
Book ID: 79470More details Price: $11.50 -
BREATH, EYES, MEMORY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, crease to corner of front cover)
Book ID: 63633More details Price: $18.50 -
BREATH, EYES, MEMORY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1998). SIGNED - Young Haitian's first book - in 1996, Danticat was one of 2 African American writers who were included in the Granta magazine's list of the 20 most promising young writers in the United States. This title was also an Oprah selection. SIGNED by the author, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70504x.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 63632More details Price: $19.50 -
L.A. JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring Nikki Hill, a black female prosecutor in LA, from Darden (the OJ Simpson prosecutor) and Lochte (writer of New Orleans mysteries). SIGNED on the title page by Lochte. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-444-523275.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53455More details Price: $25.00 -
THEY FLY AT CIRON.
Edition: First thus.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally written in 1962, published as a short story in 1971, in collaboration with James Sallis, this is an expanded, reworked novel - or as Delany says in the introduction, it is his second novel, only it took him 30 years to write it. 222 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-857756.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64383More details Price: $19.50 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an introduction by E. :L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926866.
Condition: Very good+ in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 55472More details Price: $12.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an introduction by E. L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926874.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79907More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. SIGNED first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Ron Carlson, Junot Diaz, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett, ZZ Packer and more. SIGNED by Mosley at his story "Pet Fly." Brief biographies of the contributors. Edited and with an introduction by E. :L Doctorow. Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 1999. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926866.
Condition: Very good+ in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 75461More details Price: $21.50 -
PLOUGHSHARES: VOLUME 28, #1, Spring 2002.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Emerson College, 2002. First edition - Contains poetry by Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker, Hettie Jones, Patricia Spear Jones, Charles Harper Webb, Timothy Lui, Al Young and many others. Stories by Geoffrey Becker, Steve Almond, and more. Also includes a profile on Cornelius Eady by Natasha Tretheway, and notes on contributors. 213 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-933277-342.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62330More details Price: $13.50 -
SLAVERY: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1971). A new critical approach focusing on why was American slavery different from other forms, and why have the results been so long lasting. Index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-226-204758.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 58116More details Price: $9.50 -
THE WORLD OF DUKE ELLINGTON.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Da Capo Press, (2002.). The life of jazz great Ellington in his own words and those of the musicians who played with him. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Discography, chronology, index. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-306-810158.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated covers (remainder line)
Book ID: 41977More details Price: $10.00 -
DUKE ELLINGTON: A Spiritual Biography.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "interpretive biography" by Steed, an ordained minister who is a recognized authority on Ellington's Sacred Concerts. Part of a series of short biographies in the Lives & Legacies series, which focus on the spiritual growth of significant artists. Photographs, notes, chronology, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 9780824523510.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41976More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NAKED CHILDREN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a year the author spent with five 8th & 9th grade students at a mostly Black junior high school in Washington, D.C. - he calls these students "the single most powerful force I have ever known for good change in bad education." 254 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear on back cover of dj, other minor edgewear)
Book ID: 84519More details Price: $16.50